Daniel Frome
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Instead of talking about how great this update is… I will further say that it still won’t make me rent the software without an exit strategy to keep it.
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From all the models they mention in the “article,” this might be a CUDA based solution. For the sake of the new Mac Pro owners, I hope not.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “doesn’t that kind of mean they’ve just got an adobe style media encoder going as a separate process?
Isn’t it true you can’t handle any of the encoding media before the encode is finished? As in – there is no invisible swap out of the avchd for pro res as FCPX accomplishes?”
Sort of yes and no. It does not have FCPX’s “inviso-relink,” which I do agree is more elegant. It will immediately populate your bin with “.new” clips, which appear online (1 by 1) as soon as each transcode is done. At any time you can tell your sequence to relink with the new media. You don’t have to wait until the whole process is done to relink, you just won’t have them all.
On that note, though, I found that MC7 finally handles AMA media smooth enough to work with, from beginning to end — so long as you have really fast storage. I was editing a TV promo filmed with H264 footage. I did a few tests and determined that editing with AMA footage was in the same realm (cpu usage wise, etc) as editing AVCIntra, which my laptop handles with ease. I ended up not transcoding and found it working just fine. Surprising! When the project was finished, I sent the sequence (not master clips) into the background transcode process, just so I could archive the project. Worked as expected.
As a small side bit: I did desperately want an excuse to try Premiere CC, and actually attempted an edit of the same TV promo in it. True, scrubbing the H264 footage was faster than Avid, but the project used a lot of slow mo speed ramping, to which Avid’s fluidmotion was a better option than constantly making AE comps and placing them into Premiere. It’s weird.. but if Adobe wants their time remap feature to be used in Premiere they really need to add proper frame interpolation such as what AE has.
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Toronto, broadcast sector.
Nearly all the TV production houses are still running dual FCP7 and Avid. FCP7 still being used on continuing series’ and all new shows are using Avid.
I’m currently working at a network, and internally that is, of course, all Avid, with a small sector using Grassvalley Edius.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Premiere comes second, and X is for sole operators who dig it and the curious with spare time.
After ten years of steady broadening and democratising of the skills base under FCP, this is not the ideal result for anyone. Except of course for the – arse plugged in the chair for the last twenty years – Avid editors, who we had completely on the rack, they are laughing like braying donkeys and marvelling at the fact that they just got tabs and audio keyframes or something. the fatuous morons.”Ha ha, oh Aindreas, I know you must be a good editor because you are a fabulous writer. I really do hope that competition keeps all three of these NLE makers in check.
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[Ned Soltz] “MacBook Pro – Made certain that MC 6 was deactivated and used uninstaller. Installed MC 7 and installer got all the way to Moving Items Into Place and then installer gave Installation Failed Message.”
I got a failed message during installation when I realized that my OSX gatekeeper settings weren’t set to allow software from “anywhere.” Don’t know if that’s your issue…
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Impressive numbers for FCPX. Although I must admit, for the multi-OS piece software, Adobe CC is really showing strong numbers for OSX.
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Avid has stated that bin compatibility with v7 is only possible with the latest builds of all its former versions:
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MC7 is one of their better “.0” releases, but it suffers from the same Avid issues that have lingered for a couple years. It’s UI has never regained it’s fast responsiveness since the v5.5 days (despite being 64bit), and it’s export process is still really lacking (no quicktime reference exports on AMA, even with render files, and no passing sequences directly into squeeze, etc).
There are really two big things to MC7: frameflex and background consolidating/transcoding. The first feature works quite well, but (ironically) will make you depend on AMA like never before. Double edged sword indeed, because the implementation is really great — dare I say, better than Premiere Pro or After Effects, in terms of how the image panning is handled. The second feature is more a boon to assistant editors (but what a huge boon indeed).
At the end of the day it’s a worthy piece of software to carry on it’s “industry standard” legacy. It’s typical Avid: slow and incremental evolution, and that can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it.
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Funny…when I first bought my rMBP I was having thunderbolt connectivity issues with my Pegasus TB raid. I took the machine to the apple store and they just gave me a new rMBP. Didn’t even bother to fix.